Composition "Wings"
Project and execution – Anna Paszkiewicz and Leonia Chmielnik
The location of the monument in the Summer Theatre in Jan Kasprowicz Park, on the crown of the audience - view before the reconstruction of the Theatre in 2022.
The composition "Wings" is a sculptural accent with an abstract composition, consisting of three granite blocks. The author gave the outer two the shape of wings. The third, smallest block with an elongated shape, is the base for one of the wings. The sculpture is made of granite blocks with a height of 135 cm x width of approx. 320 cm x depth of 45 cm.
The composition was placed on a nearly meter-high concrete wall covered with granite tiles, until the reconstruction of the Theatre. Together with other works by Leonia Chmielnik, Mieczysław Welter and Stanisław Biżek, it emphasized the closure of the amphitheater arch. It was made in 1974-75 at the request of the city authorities and is one of several sculptural elements located on the premises of the Summer Theatre.
Currently, after the reconstruction of the Theatre, part of the composition is placed directly on the ground, without a plinth. In addition, the contractor of the reconstruction put the elements of the sculpture in a random order and spatial orientation (one of the elements was rotated by 180 degrees), at the same time adding to the composition one element of unknown origin.
Location of the sculpture – as of 22 May 2024
Anna Paszkiewicz-Sawicka (ur. 1940)
Anna Paszkiewicz is one of the most important artists in the art of post-war Szczecin. She comes from the area of Vilnius. She came to Poland at the age of 15. She studied at the Faculty of Sculpture of the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. She received her diploma from the studio of prof. S. Horno-Popławski in 1964. She is the author of outdoor projects in Poland, Latvia, Germany and Italy. In the years 1971-86 she cooperated with the Szczecin Shipyard named after Adolf Warski, creating bas-reliefs in copper sheet and ceramics. Her interests include monumental, intimate, outdoor, figurative and abstract sculpture of an anthropomorphic nature (in materials such as stone, metal, aluminum, bronze), installation, performance.
She has traveled artistically to Egypt, Georgia, Latvia, Korea. She has participated in many group exhibitions in Poland and abroad, as well as in exhibitions of the Szczecin community. She has received awards and distinctions. She was awarded the Bronze (1983) and Silver (1985) Medal of the Council for the Protection of Monuments of Combat and Martyrdom, the Silver Cross of Merit (1986). She has participated in open-air sculpture workshops and creative stays in Orońsko, as well as sculpture symposia in Poland and abroad..
Text and study: Marta Płachta - author of the project entitled 'Halo! Whose sculpture is this?" (SBO 2024 edition)
https://infoludek.pl/szczecin/halo-czyja-to-rzezba-czyli-projekt-podpisania-szczecinskich-pomnikow/
Source:
https://bip.um.szczecin.pl/chapter_59232.asp
https://pomeranica.pl/wiki/Akcent_rze%C5%BAbiarski_Kompozycja_skrzyd%C5%82a_II_(Szczecin)
https://artinfo.pl/dzielo/kobieta-z-kotkiem-35
https://rzezba-oronsko.pl/artysci/anna-paszkiewicz/
assessment of the technical condition of the sculptures made by Mirela Zwirblis in May 2024.